Intel layoffs by the numbers: How many got the ax, what departments, and what ages

Intel didn't announce last month's layoffs. It hadn't even planned on telling employees about them, writing in an internal memo that, "We will not broadly communicate the program internally or externally."

The answer is 1,155 in the United States, 2.3 percent of its domestic work force, plus an unknown number of employees in other countries (slightly more than half of Intel employees work abroad).

That information comes from data Intel offered to all laid off workers under the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, which seeks to guard against age discrimination in job cuts. The Oregonian obtained the document from Intel employees who lost their jobs.

It contains the ages, departments and job titles - but not the name, gender or ethnicity - of every employee laid off in the round of cuts completed July 15.

The document also contains the ages and job titles of every employee Intel retained, providing a rare look at the composition of the chipmaker's workforce and the decisions it made in last month's layoffs.

In addition to the overall layoff number, here are seven things the document tell us about the changes and Intel's workforce: